Subj : printf and color codes
To : Nightfox
From : MCMLXXIX
Date : Tue Jan 22 2013 12:03 pm
Re: printf and color codes
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Jan 22 2013 07:46:06
> Re: printf and color codes
> By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Jan 21 2013 23:56:55
>
> DM> That's not how printf (and the related formatting functions) in C work
> DM> however. The width modifier to the %s specifier does not specify the
> DM> number of "printable" characters, just the number of characters, period
> DM> (which includes non-printable characters, like \a, \b, and so on).
>
> Coming from a C/C++ background, I suspected that was so. Even then, it seem
> somewhat odd.. But oh well, we deal with it. :)
>
I still think that if the function is going to handle the non-printable
characters, it should account for them. If it's not going to account for them,
printf() shouldn't be able to handle them (like console.write)
